- traditions), an
oblate is a
person ****ociated with a
Benedictine monastery or
convent who is
specifically dedicated to God and service.
Oblates are individuals...
-
revolution (spheroid) respectively.
Other terms used are ellipticity, or
oblateness. The
usual notation for
flattening is f {\displaystyle f} and its definition...
-
ratio of an
oblate spheroid/ellipse, c : a, is the
ratio of the
polar to
equatorial lengths,
while the
flattening (also
called oblateness) f, is the ratio...
- The
Oblate (French: L'Oblat) is the last
novel by the
French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans,
first published in 1903. The
Oblate is the
final book in Huysmans'...
- Mars is the
fourth planet from the Sun. The
surface of Mars is orange-red
because it is
covered in iron(III)
oxide dust,
giving it the
nickname "the Red...
- The
Missionary Oblates of Mary
Immaculate (OMI) is a
missionary religious congregation in the
Catholic Church. It was
founded on
January 25, 1816, by...
-
Forcades (1966–)
Benedictine Oblates endeavor to
embrace the
spirit of the
Benedictine vow in
their own life in the world.
Oblates are
affiliated with a particular...
-
Better approximations can be made by
modeling the
entire surface as an
oblate spheroid,
using spherical harmonics to
approximate the geoid, or modeling...
-
determination (based on Boyle's law) of the
speed of
sound in air,
inferred the
oblateness of Earth's
spheroidal figure,
accounted for the
precession of the equinoxes...
- the word 'ellipsoid' is
understood to mean '
oblate ellipsoid of revolution', and the
older term '
oblate spheroid' is
hardly used. For
bodies that cannot...
